(a.) Pertaining to starch; of the nature of starch; starchy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The amounts of alpha-glucosidase in cells of B. amyloliquefaciens grown on amylaceous polysaccharides were significantly higher then in cells grown on non-carbohydrate carbon sources.
(2) Also recorded were severe lipofuscin depositions from the cortex, dentate nucleus, and olivae as well as amylaceous bodies in the insula of Reil and the hippocampus.
(3) Although other possible mechanisms cannot be ruled out, it is clear that this hydration reaction differs from reactions catalyzed with amylaceous substrates and with alpha- and beta-maltosyl fluoride.
(4) Indirect determinations showed that synthesis of d-glucosyl glycerol was significantly affected by the nature of the amylaceous substrate.
Starchy
Definition:
(a.) Consisting of starch; resembling starch; stiff; precise.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus the present study gives support for a protective effect associated with a fiber-rich or vegetable-rich diet, while it indicates that frequent consumption of refined starchy foods, eggs and fat-rich foods such as cheese and red meat is a risk factor for colo-rectal cancer.
(2) Potentially clinically useful starchy foods producing relatively flat glycemic responses have been identified.
(3) The possibility of incorporating Icacinia manni among the edible starchy plant tubers is discussed.
(4) Universal optimum application of fluoride and substitution of starchy foods for sugary ones (or even simply judicious consumption of sugar) would alone do most of the job.
(5) The enzymes are likely to function in the depolymerization of cell wall arabinoxylans during mobilization of the starchy endosperm.
(6) For many men, Austen is the archetypal women's author – her canvas too domestic, her domain too girly, her men too starchy and conformist, her settings too chintzy and her plots too prim to excite the average male reader.
(7) Cereals and products provided the highest proportion of natural sodium while starchy staples supplied over 40 per cent of the potassium in the diet.
(8) Starchy seeds or fruits rather than leaves appeared to have been consumed.
(9) The present study investigated whether the relative preference for sweet and starchy tastes changes during the postweaning to adulthood period in male and female rats.
(10) In the resting grain most of the reserve proteins are 'packed' into the non-living storage tissue, the starchy endosperm.
(11) The low-fiber diet consisted of milk, glucose, and dextrins in liquid formula form, the high-fiber diet was composed of starchy foods.
(12) The GIs, and in particular IIs, were closely correlated with the hydrolysis rate index (HI) obtained in vitro, and this procedure can be recommended as a tool for ranking of starchy food.
(13) Category 1 includes foods that are low in Na, high in K and low in energy: fresh or frozen vegetable sources with vitamins A and C. Category 2 contains foods low in Na relative to high K and high energy: most fruit, starchy vegetables, nuts, milk and meat products, and chocolate.
(14) Different starchy foods produce different glycemic responses when fed individually, and there is some evidence that this also applies in the context of the mixed meal.
(15) Many foods which produce these effects are traditional starchy foods and so strengthen current recommendations of the diabetes association, heart foundations and cancer institutes to increase the use of starchy foods through reducing fat intake.
(16) Women with less than 1,200 kcal had lower intakes of protein, carbohydrate, fat, calcium, iron, thiamin, riboflavin, and niacin; they ate less frequently; and they ate less meat and eggs, legumes, bread, cooked starchy vegetables, milk products, desserts, added fat, and added sugar than did men and women whose mean energy intakes exceeded 1,200 kcal.
(17) Dieticians clucked over quinoa approvingly because it ticked the low-fat box and fitted in with government healthy eating advice to "base your meals on starchy foods".
(18) Among 31 food items considered, a few showed direct association, including starchy foods and various sources of animal fats or proteins, whereas frequent consumption of other foods, including major sources of dietary iodine (such as fish, green vegetables and fruit) gave significant protection.
(19) The research, presented today at the American Diabetes Association conference, shows that an extremely low-calorie diet, consisting of diet drinks and non-starchy vegetables, prompts the body to remove the fat clogging the pancreas and preventing it from making insulin.
(20) Several cDNAs encoding the small and large subunit of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase (AGP) were isolated from total RNA of the starchy endosperm, roots and leaves of barley by polymerase chain reaction (PCR).